Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-06
STATE NEWS.

CUMBERLAND.
Among Portand's last weeks imports were
j137 barrels OF salt. i4l9 barrels Of potatoes
1888 tons OF coal $40 quintais fish and $50
tons of pig iron Among the exports was
the sardnian's cargo valued at sl55.772, and
the cargoes of the Ellen Crusoc and Nicker-
son previously given
\ workman engaged in digging about Mr..
J. L. Bakers new cottage at Mackworth's
Island, Saturday, unearthed a human skull
and other bones. There was no appearance
Of a grave.
About the first of January the Evening
Express Will remove to connexions quarters
nov being fitted up especially for it at No. -
Market square. IT. new office will have all
the modern Improvements the first floor
will be Used a counting room, the editorial
and composing rooms being on the second
and third floors above.
KNOX.
Camden par,ie, have been looking at the
Bay View House aud If is hoped that thi.
finely located aud .pleudiily furnished hotel
will soon be open 10 the public. There is
also talk of large summer boarding house,
or hotel, being erected at an early day.
A team belonging to the Messrs. Williams
bakers. took fright near johnson Knights
mill yesterday morning and ran wildly up
Bay View street. toward the village square,
striking the hind wheel of the grocery team
of Rollins ogicr, standing in front Of their
lower store, breaking the axletree and .plttir g
several spokes. The Williams horse was by
the collision freed from the carriage which
was left on the road wreck. No damage
done to the horses.
III. RngLl land Eongra.s npou. nd
bids fair to be a success there being consid-
cradle interest manifested by the members
The officers have been chosen and committees
appointed aud the Congress is now read. for
business.
PENoBscUT.
The large wooden mill which is being built
at >angcryillc has been closed in for the
winter. The inside is now being finished and
the machinery will be put in so that the mill
may start up III the spring,
At their recent fair in Bangor the ladies' of
the Crusade realized the handsome sum of
two hundred and sixty-eight dollars above all
expenses. The generous patronage extended
them was very gratifying.
Rev. \. w Anthony delivered the first of
the course of Sunday evening lectures to be
given in the Essex Street Free Baptist Church,
Bangor, last SUNDAY evening, on the subject,
Fell from a Window before large and
interested audience.
SOMERSET.
NoHRIpGEwoCk. - Our correspondent
writes Enos. b. Gilman, "a farmer living
about mile from the village met with quite
serious accident Thursday while cutting
understanding upon the log it suddenly
broke down throwing him backward and he
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of the axe which ne was using; fortunately
for him the log on which he had been stand
ing broke part of his fall so that the blade of
the axe penetrated only about - inch into
the heshy part of his thigh. DIR. Narney
dressed the wound and says he will have a
speedy recovery. This is the third accident
TO farmers in the same school district with
in I months, Llcwcilvn Morrow being ter
riblv nutiated by moving machine, Amos
lleald falling from barn and sustaining
severe injuries of the chest.
IEE.---our correspondent writes Dec.
) Mercer is a small town of about iu0 inhab-
itants situated twelve miles from Skowilegan.
We have two churches. two stores, saw mill
grist mill three blacksmith shops and one
hotel. We have no rum shops, and the peo-
Pile are thrifty and orderly. The farm build
ings of l.. b Nickersnn situated about two
miles from the village. on the Rome road
were entirely consumed by fire Thursday
afternoon. Dec. list, with all his household
furniture. wearing apparel. grain. forty tons
of hay, and about seventeen cords of wood
Loss $1,000. insured for 81 100 Oh the build
iugS, $500 on hay and grain, 500 on furni-
turc. lie had some $500 dozen of eggs in
the cellar ON which there was an insurance of
Sloo. Fifty bushels of potatoes aud ten bar
L.
ancr. -,ieorge Morse ha, bought the Diggle's
stand, and " II move IN soon. This nccpssi-
tates Chas. Horn moving. who will go into :
VI. Wlliamson's house on Main street--John
). Girllcr, an aged and respected citizen of
Mercer, died Thursday morning Funeral
services were held at the house Saturday at
ten O'Clock.
ST ALHtNS.---our CORE spondent writes ::
rs three boys went skating on Indian pond
Thursday night, one of them broke through
the ice and disappeared in twenty feet of
water or more but soon came to the surface
and was pulled out by his two companions
aged Il aud II years. who, with rare presence
of mind reached him a pole and rescued him
in an exhausted condition. Ii was a narrow
escape from drown ming and Il warning to
skaters not to venture on ice that is To thin
to hold their weight. News bv telegraph was
received by y. II Niung. Esq. of the death
of his eldest daughter Miss Carrie Nining at
her uncle'> in Seattle. W. r. Miss Niuing
whowas anncconplished scholar and teacher
having graduated recently from the Normal
I school at Castine. went to Seattle 10 teach
in the public schools Her parents and
friends have the sympathy of all in their
bereavement and sorrow - Mrs LOWE Foss,
who had the misfortune to>fal down the cell
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